My DS Lite has a cracked hinge, and i want to send it to nintendo to get it fixed, but i have flashme installed. Do I have to uninstall it, or will Nintendo even check for it?
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well the problem is that I don't have the Lite version of flashme, so i dont have brightness settings, but they wont turn it on will they?
they could care less, you are sending it in for repair, some ds lites skip the health and warning screen, my friends unflashed ds does i thought his ds was flashed but it wasnt, so they cant really tell if you flash it or not unless they put in a flash cart.
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No DSes skip the intro screen without some voodoo. (AKA the autoboot bit being set in the Slot1 card's header or FlashMe installed)
Uninstalling Flashme is very dangerous. If the flash fails then there is no recovery method. Your DS will be permanently bricked.
Same goes with flashing it with Flashme, so i dont know what you are talking about.
Actually uninstalling it is more dangerous then installing. Yes there is potential to brick your unit during flashing but about 95% of the time you can recover from an interrupted flash of flashme as long as it managed to do enough to write in the recovery data. My hands don't work well for it so I had someone else do it for me but still.
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my friends ds does, and its not flashed i checked with my ez flash iv, the health and warning screen pops up then goes away.
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If you send it for hardware repair I doubt they'll check for flashme.
But if you send it for firmware related stuff they probably will.
But if you send it for firmware related stuff they probably will.
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must have been a mistake. No DS does that. Maybe you were holding L or R?
I use my R4, and the health/warning screen appears, but you don't need to press any buttons; it does away itself. Mine's not flashed. When I boot it without the R4, I have to press buttons...
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if it's because of a cracked hinge or anything physical, no. if it's because some of the software is acting up, they will just load the screen to see if it's been messed with. if they don't see anything then you're fine. usually when you flash it you lose the warning sign, and that is what they mostly look for. you're fine if it's a physical problem.
I sent my DS in for repair with a broken button, with flashme on it, and they didn't even check. They just repaired it and sent it back, flashme bios intact and all!
i found out its a setting, so any ds can do it, you just have to turn it on from your setting menu.
The R4DS has a certain bit set on the cart that tells the Nintendo DS to automatically boot the cart without going to the menu.
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